Oh no...

They've been out of ideas for the past two decades.

>>57993020 (OP)
How did we get to the point where the games from the early 2000's to early 2010's are more replayable than whatever slop Game Freak's shitting out nowadays?

>>57993024
The author is a Sinnohfetus. He unironically thinks making literal Godmons wasn't a sign of creative bankruptcy.

>>57993029
I've already replayed SV five times so I don't know what to tell you

>>57993020 (OP)
>The so called "Creative era of pokemon" according to retards

>>57993044
Exactly. Designs that were memorable and iconic because they were inspired by animals. Around Gen 3/4 they ran out of animals to copy and the designs became..whatever the fuck that's supposed to be.

>>57993051
A cool ghost? You know there are Ghost types in Pokemon, right? And we don't have ghost animals.

>>57993044
the article is not baput design, itz about the gameplay and she is not wrong is the zame boring shit and the gimmicks make t worse

>>57993051
They started using weird inanimate objects like Lamps & Icecream cones

>>57993059
...and magnets and eggs.
oh wait

palworldchad just keeping winning, poketurd hated and rrun out of ideas lmaoooo cant wait for the garbage new trailer of this dead series

the article
https://screenrant.com/pokemon-nostalgia-problem-tcg-video-games/

>>57993063
I saw they have new turtle types now even though squirtle exists

>>57993064
>Fotm slop that had a record week 2 plummet in stream
2 more weeks.

>>57993029"
i noticed that in the last "post your current team" thread >>57971803

everyone just replays the first 5 gens and romhacks

>>57993068
the article is fine, she is saying the truth

How many games plots boil down to child of a single mother or absent father meets scientist who gives them a pokedex so they can catalog all the pokemon while defeating a terrorist group and leveling up to become champion.

What other common story elements are there...

>pokemon blocking a path
>the quest for a bike
>rival who randomly battles you
>The final champion helps you along your quest
>one free master ball per game
>mid game pseudo legendary encounter
>random npcs giving you free shit like fishing rods

You dont play pokemon for new things you play it for the familiarity with some new variety and novelty each version

>>57993044
retard, even in the article she says that nostalgia pandering is the reason they are out of ideas

>>57993069
and how many bird types does gen 1 have

>>57993084
What's wrong with nostalgia? Why do Westerners think every new game must completely reinvent the wheel? Maybe some people like familiarity

>>57993084
There's not a single bit of nostalgia pandering in SV though?

>>57993072
Well it's a lot easier to emulate shit like Emerald and Platinum on your phone. Also, 3D games have way too many cutscenes I don't want to sit through on a replay.

>>57993090
When you pander to the exact same nostalgia every entry it's not nostalgia anymore, you're just doing the same thing over and over.

this series is just alive because nostalgia and merchandise

>>57993086
the perfect amount

>>57993101
Exactly if something is perfect you dont need to change it. Alligators haven't changed their shape in millions of years because they reached their evolutionary peak. Pokemon is much the same, its the perfect game of its class and thus does not need to change much beyond a few superficial alterations.

>>57993020 (OP)
After SwSh and SV yeah, these fuckers don't care aymore, they know this retard fanbase will buy fucking anything

where are all the creative and original designs like literally my moms pedophile and obese black negress???

>>57993163
You mean Jynx?

>>57993020 (OP)
>ITT: we pretend it's 2011

>>57993069
There's multiple Turtles and Tortoise in our World, but the Pokémon should only have 1 line? Awful.

>>57993204
ah yes the infamous real world volcano turtle

No exaggeration, people have been saying this with each new game since Ruby Sapphire.
Pokemon Legends is doing a lot to change the series now. If you're still unhappy, maybe mons just doesn't;t appeal to you anymore.

>>57993245
Eh, I thought SV was a million times better than PLA

>>57993029
>How did we get to the point where I’m a nostalgiafag for the games I played as a child?
the world may never know

>>57993254
It's not nostalgia, Yawnie. The older games have more to do. And as much as I hate to admit it, even XY have more shit to do in them compared to SwShit and SV.

>>57993020 (OP)
Yes, it's now that they're officially out of ideas, when they finally put true open world, real time catching, real time battles, unique objectives other than collecting 8 badges, and unique settings to the games. Not during gen 4 where they literally just copy/pasted gen 3 while jumping the shark with pokegods and not during gen 5 which added literally nothing innovative to the series. It's now that they're officially out of ideas.

>>57993270
>The older games have more to do
sweeping through piss easy npcs while mashing A through the same linear path isn't "more to do"

>>57993020 (OP)
Gaming websites have been saying this for the last 15 years.

>>57993020 (OP)
What does it matter anyway? They have tons of zombie audiences who will consume and defend their products, no matter the level of mediocrity.

>>57993245
Kids have been saying this since gen2

>>57993020 (OP)
People have been saying this for years but it suddenly matters now because... some article site wrote it? Everyone knows people who write for articles have zero gaming skills and they're a joke. You're also a joke if you take them seriously

>>57993020 (OP)
That ingame screenshot is so fucking funny

>>57993020 (OP)
>Gladion 3.0
>Lillie 3.0
>Red 9.0
>Hau 3.0
Yep. Out of ideas.

>>57993750
This.

>>57993020 (OP)
>Posting a screenrant article screencap of all things
You are out of ideas for posts here, faggot.

>literal who
>LOLpinion
>gaijin
The trifecta of ESL retard bait.

>>57993082
Is it bad this sounds like every "modern" RPG of the 90s?
Walk around the streets, talk to a hobo, get free shit, earn a bike/skate to travel, get the "free range" vehicle (Fly/a flying robot/speeder/etc.), and then ending with either a fight with the mean scientist or galactic emperor while using the teleporter tool (spaceship/teleporter/magic crystal).

>>57993020 (OP)
If you told me this during gen 6, then yes, but ever since gen 7 I feel like they've had so many ideas and just have no fucking idea what they're doing with them. They drop new ideas the very next game so they are never refined into something of quality, and some of those ideas are implemented terribly or come off as an afterthought due to their tight deadlines.

>>57993750
Maybe Bede was gladion 2.0, but arven is definitely not gladion 3.0
Maybe marnie was lillie 2.0 but penny is not really lillie 3.0, and maybe hop was hau 2.0 (to the point of sharing a lot of identical animations) but nemona is nowhere near to being anything like a hau 3.0... she's already a champion rank trainer at the start of the game and is more of a mentor to the main character than the opposite
and "red 9.0" of all the male mc's i'd say only gold/ethan, hilbert, calem and chase would count as direct ripoffs of red.

>>57993204
turtles and tortoises are probably the most well reprosented category of animals in the entire pokémon series. there's freshwater turtles (squirtle line) tortoise (torkoal) a prehistoric horned turtle (turtwig line) a sea turtle line (tirtouga line) a matamata (turtonator), a snapping turtle (turtonator), a soft shell turtle (enamorous), and that one turlte that carries the earth from real world mythology (terapagos). what the fuck are you talking about with your "only one line"

>>57993020 (OP)
Oh no, anyway

>>57993020 (OP)
>out of ideas
Good thing they recently had a massive hiring wave, then.
But seriously though, every game since b/w 2 has been pretty mediocre vanilla. Yet when you toss that bitch in a randomizer it becomes amazingly fun.
They just need to make randomizer and opponent level & team scaling a toggle-able option in future games and they'll be amazing. They could even keep it to being game exclusives if they want to keep selling the same game twice. No harm done.

>>57994991
>what the fuck are you talking about with your "only one line"
It's the world >>57993069 wants. Again, awful.

>>57993020 (OP)
Just ask AI ;)

>>57993020 (OP)
Funny how there was several articles with an exact same header like this starting from the release of B2W2, further cementing how the Unova games were a mistake.

>>57993163
>my moms pedophile
You called?

>>57993056
Learn how to spell.

>>57993082
>absent father
Dad getting a new job as a gym leader is why you move to Hoenn

>>57993020 (OP)
Have we really sunk so fucking low that we're posting shitty clickbait titles wrote by a literal who wannabe """journalists""" now? Jesus fucking Christ, kill yourself.

>>57993029
It was something like this: you got old but you refused to admit you are not a child anymore, so you cling to anything that reminds you of those years and deny anything from the recent ones.

It has been like that since gen 3

>>57993064
Palworld never had an idea of its own

>>57993056
Her only point is "they are showing mega evolution again, so they have no new ideas", which is as completely retarded as her clickbait desperate attempt

>>57993056
Why do you write like this? Are you literally 9 years old?

>>57993059
>Icecream cones
It's been 15 years and you are still unable to get it's a chunk of ice covered in snow?

>people still not over the fact that gen 9 was a huge success despite their clout farming hate bandwagon
Lol, lmao. Retarded raitbait journos.

>>57995546
>>57995811
ok

>>57995931
>People are still not over the fact millions of flies like eating shit despite it being a gross thing

>>57997213
shit is healthy for flies so this analogy is retarded

>>57995931
Only autistic manchildren sees this as "bait". Any normalfag gamer knows new pokemon games are budgeted slop only bought up supreme autists.

>>57997213
Yep. Mad cause thing is popular.
>>57997228
>Extremely successful thing BAD actually!
Most obvious rage/clickbait of all time.

>>57993248
Shit taste.

>>57997325
>>Extremely successful thing BAD actually!
I can say the same thing about gacha slop. Cry about it.

>>57997359
Except the "normalfag" gamer isn't an autistic manchild who gets upset games she's interested in don't consider adults (that's why they're normalfags - they eat what's presented to them up without complaint).
Or are you seriously trying to imply the 26m+ sales they've earned from Gen 8 and 9's new gen pairs were only bought by supreme autists? 'Cause that ALSO applies to every game after GS up to LGPE.

>>57997377
>seriously trying to imply that 26m+ sales they've earned from Gen 8 and 9's new gen pairs were only bought by supreme autists
Well I MEAAAN

>>57997377
>Or are you seriously trying to imply the 26m+ sales they've earned from Gen 8 and 9's new gen pairs were only bought by supreme autists?
Unironically yes. Look at Sonic for example. Another similar franchise and fandom that devolved into subpar games yet autists still buy the shit up just like Pokemon. Anyone with eyes can see pokemon has seen better days and it's fans will consume anything including steaming piles of turds if it had the logo slapped onto it. Also see picrel from this anon.>>57997384

>>57993199
Anon i keep hearing people lust after a so called pokegirl named Marnie. Who the fuck is Marnie? Is she from some shitty spinoff that nobody played?

>>57993275
I suspect they've had all these ideas for generations, but are purposefully drip feeding them out to reduce their workload and to stave off the day they actually run out of ideas.

>>57997384
You're fucking stupid. Autism didn't become more common, it's just being diagnosed more because the screening exists now as opposed to the past.

>>57997453
Eh, and also likely environmental factors. Autism is found more commonly in kids who had parents beyond the age of 39. People are having kids later and later too...

>>57997453
it being diagnosed more just means it's more common than we think.

>>57997460
It's not an increase of 300% either fucking way.

>>57997466
>and also
does not imply that it's the only reason why the reported rates have gone up.
And in all of this, I've discovered that anon is too autistic to understand what a joke response is.

>>57993020 (OP)
They aren't wrong. SV's dex was half way taken up by paradox mons which are just "what if pokemon were...LE FUTURISTIC or...LE PREHISTORIC WITH SPIKES"

>>57997478
The "article" is complaining about megas coming back though